Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 470
ial King he stood.His vaunted powers displaying.The courtiers laughed until they cried.The monarch held his aching side.And roared at each new saying. Good sirs, he murmured, spent with mirth,Give this rare Fool some money. For, faith, and 1 can laugh no more. In all my life, I neer beforeHeard… … EANWHILE, the Fool dis-coursed to thoseWho used the Sage to follow,They heard, with nods of wise assent,His reasonings gravelyeloquent, Hissounding phra-ses hollow. With spectacles astride his nose,And air insinuating,He urged and argued and explained,And ever eager listeners gained,To hear his…
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